But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved... Modern painters - Page 356by John Ruskin - 1894Full view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 pages
...a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Not uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; — a pillared shade, Upon whose grasslcss floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged* Perennially — beneath... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...from that noble poem the other day in the " Modern Painters," cited for the landscape: " Huge trunks, and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, Upcoiling and iuveterately convolved! Beneath whose shade With aheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged Terennially—"... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...growth Of intertwisted fibers serpentine, Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved — • Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane...grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the piny umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose, decked... | |
| 1854 - 126 pages
...which, according to Wordsworth, are " Joined in one solemn and capacious frrove ; Huge trunks ! — and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted...serpentine, Upcoiling and inveterately convolved, Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks, That threaten the profane." The ascent of a high pass, called... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1854 - 144 pages
...note Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted...serpentine, Up-coiling and inveterately convolved, — Nor uninform'd with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane : — a pittarM shade, Upon whose grassless... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1854 - 192 pages
...Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Join'd in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks !— and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted...serpentine, Upcoiling, and inveterately convolved, — • This passage — one of the noblest instances of the moral sublime — is from the Theban (Edipus,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! — and eaeh particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Not uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; — a pillared shade, Upon whose... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...growth Of intertwisted fibers serpentine, Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved — • Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane...grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the piny umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose, decked... | |
| John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 pages
...note Are those fraternal Four of Borrovrdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillared shade, Upon whose grasslcss... | |
| John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 pages
...note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted...serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved 5 Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; a pillared shade, Upon whose... | |
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